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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 12
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Israel to destroy Canaanitish gods and places of worship—The Lord will designate where his people shall worship—Eating of blood forbidden—Israel’s worship must conform to divine standard.
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These</span> <i>are</i> the statutes and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB ordinances.">judgments</a>, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
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Ye shall utterly destroy all the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 12: 3.">places</a>, wherein the nations which ye shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/2b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB dispossess.">possess</a> served their <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/12/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a>, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
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And ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 13.">overthrow</a> their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/3b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB asherim; i.e. idols, fertility goddesses.">groves</a> with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
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Ye shall not do so unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God.
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But unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 15: 20; Deut. 26: 2; 1 Kgs. 8: 29 (26-30); 2 Chr. 7: 12.">place</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 11: 36.">choose</a> out of all your tribes to put his name there, <i>even</i> unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/12/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 27.">come</a>:
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And thither ye shall bring your burnt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 3: 2.">offerings</a>, and your sacrifices, and your <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Tithing.">tithes</a>, and <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/12/6c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB given contributions (also v. 11, 17).">heave</a> offerings of your hand, and your <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/12/6d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR vowed offerings.">vows</a>, and your freewill offerings, and the <sup>e</sup><a href="deut/12/6e" mark="e" type="A" title="Mosiah 2: 3.">firstlings</a> of your herds and of your flocks:
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And there ye shall eat before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 26: 11.">rejoice</a> in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath blessed thee.
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Ye shall not do after all <i>the things</i> that we do here this day, every man whatsoever <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 17: 6; Judg. 21: 25.">right</a> in his own eyes.
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For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God giveth you.
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But <i>when</i> ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God giveth you to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 9: 1 (1-6); Josh. 1: 11 (1-18).">inherit</a>, and <i>when</i> he giveth you <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Rest.">rest</a> from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
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Then there shall be a place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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And ye shall rejoice before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that <i>is</i> within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
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But in the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 17: 4 (1-7).">place</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
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Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Food; TG Meat.">flesh</a> in all thy gates, <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/15b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB of whatever meat you desire.">whatsoever</a> thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God which he hath given thee: the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/12/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 15: 22.">unclean</a> and the clean may eat thereof, as of the <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/12/15d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR gazelle.">roebuck</a>, and as of the <sup>e</sup><a href="deut/12/15e" mark="e" type="D" title="OR male deer.">hart</a>.
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Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
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&#182; Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB grain.">corn</a>, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
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But thou must eat them before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God in the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that <i>is</i> within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
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Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 10: 9 (8-9).">Levite</a> as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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&#182; When the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall enlarge thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR territory.">border</a>, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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If the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat <i>of</i> them alike.
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Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blood, Eating of.">blood</a> <i>is</i> the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
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Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 11: 27 (26-28).">well</a> with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do <i>that which is</i> right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall choose:
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And thou shalt offer thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 1: 13 (11, 13).">burnt</a> offerings, the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/27b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Flesh and Blood.">flesh</a> and the blood, upon the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
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Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 13: 10.">well</a> with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest <i>that which is</i> good and right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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&#182; When the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 4: 13.">cut</a> off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/29b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB dispossessest.">succeedest</a> them, and dwellest in their land;
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Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?  even so will I do likewise.
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Thou shalt not do so unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God: for every <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 9: 1; Jer. 44: 4 (4-5).">abomination</a> to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Abr. 1: 8.">burnt</a> in the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/12/31c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 18: 21; Deut. 18: 10; Jer. 7: 31.">fire</a> to their gods.
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What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/12/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Doctrine.">add</a> thereto, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/12/32b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation.">diminish</a> from it.
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